The English Reader, Or Pieces in Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Best Writers : Designed to Assist Young Persons to Read with Propriety and Effect, to Improve Their Language and Sentiments, and to Inculcate Some of the Most Important Principles of Piety and Virtue. With a Few Preliminary Observations on the Principles of Good ReadingR. Patterson & Lambdin, 1822 - 264 páginas |
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... appear under the form of ve- nial weaknesses ; and are indulged in the beginning , with scru- pulousness and reserve . But by longer practice , these restraints weaken , and the power of habit grows . One vice brings in another to its ...
... appear under the form of ve- nial weaknesses ; and are indulged in the beginning , with scru- pulousness and reserve . But by longer practice , these restraints weaken , and the power of habit grows . One vice brings in another to its ...
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... appear- ances unhappily blasted in the progress of life , merely through the influence of loose and corrupting pleasure ; and those very persons , who promised once to be blessings to the world , sunk down , in the end , to be the ...
... appear- ances unhappily blasted in the progress of life , merely through the influence of loose and corrupting pleasure ; and those very persons , who promised once to be blessings to the world , sunk down , in the end , to be the ...
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... appears to have been one of the princes , or chief men , of the Syrian court . Charged with rich gifts from the king , he presents himself before the prophet ; and accosts him in terms of the highest respect . During the conference ...
... appears to have been one of the princes , or chief men , of the Syrian court . Charged with rich gifts from the king , he presents himself before the prophet ; and accosts him in terms of the highest respect . During the conference ...
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... appears to have proved , what the prophet foresaw him to be , a man of violence , cruelty , and blood . In this passage of history , an object is presented which deserves our serious attention . We behold a man who , in one state of ...
... appears to have proved , what the prophet foresaw him to be , a man of violence , cruelty , and blood . In this passage of history , an object is presented which deserves our serious attention . We behold a man who , in one state of ...
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... appears to have been incapable of generosity or clemency , determined to remove eve- ry person from whom the least danger could be appre- hended . Warning was , therefore , given to lady Jane to prepare for death ; a doom which she had ...
... appears to have been incapable of generosity or clemency , determined to remove eve- ry person from whom the least danger could be appre- hended . Warning was , therefore , given to lady Jane to prepare for death ; a doom which she had ...
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Página 181 - Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life; And I shall dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.